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I mean...they've been very upfront that these are specifically run in solid grey to look better in a collection, but they very much are test shots. Heck, they even specifically mentioned they had the factory provide color matched soft goods for these figures, even though that's not something normally done for test shots, because the wizards wouldn't look right without the robes. IIRC, the actual solid grey color used was originall an accident, but it looked so good and was such a popular idea, that they just released similar versions of all the figures they've made in that test shot grey.

They've been doing em since the very first wave of figures and the test shots, of which only ten per character were made, were the first actual samples people got in hand of this line. I've been posting these guys since 2015, as that's when the first test shotswere shipped out (they were $45 at the time, but came with two day shipping from china to arrive before X-mas that year). The final production figures didn't ship out until summer 2016 as they just started full production that same december the test shots shipped out.

Yes, these guys are made to be sold, but they're still the first runs of the figure from the finalized molds once all the imperfections have been addressed.